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Thursday, April 26, 2012

HASC Orders DoD To Fly Block 30 Global Hawks; Sticks $260M In Bill

[RQ-4A Global Hawk]The House Armed Services Committee is giving the US Air Force both marching orders and money to operate its eighteen "Block 30" Global Hawk UAVs instead of warehousing them as the service proposed.

The Administration's fiscal 2013 budget request cancelled the Block 30 program and provided no funds to operate the 18 drones already bought from prime contractor Northrop Grumman, arguing they were less effective and more expensive to fly than the venerable U-2, the manned spyplane they were intended to replace.

But the HASC's mark-up of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2013 includes $260 million to keep the Block 30s operational.

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